Purification of water.



J. PATTEN. FURIFIGATON OF WATER. APPLICATION FILED AUG. 19, 1908.

Patented Sept. 24, 1912.

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JLPATTEN. PURIPIGATION OF WATER. APPLICATION FILED AUG. 19, 1908,

Patented Sept. 24, 1912.l

UNITED erige PTSEN'r centos.

` JOHN TAT'llN, 0E' BALTIMRE, MARYLAND.

Specification of Letters atent.

meesten sept. 24, 191e.

Application filed August 19, 1908. Serial No. 449,30

iro all whom t may concern'.-

Ee it known that I, JOHN PATJ'EN, s resident of Baltimore, in the Stateoi Meryland, have invented certain new end useful improvements in Puricetion of TNoter; ond )l do hereby declare the .following to be e full, clear, exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in theert to which it apperteins to make' end use the seme'. y

This invent-ion relates to the purification of Water, and more particularly to the removing from the water of such foreign matter and gas as would cause corrosion of surface condenser-s' end'wl ich would result in the contamination of the Water.

ers have been used for separating sediment and sceleforming compounds from the feed Water before it enters the boiler.

The object of live-steam feed water puriiers has been to separate mineral com- 'pounds from the feed water and throw them ont of the system, thereby ,providing the boiler with suoli water ns will reduce thc formation or' scale in the boiler. The gases generated lieve been allowed to go to the condenser (such as employed in ice making apparatus) oixed with the stenm and sans ieg the corrosion ci? the metallic condensing surfaces the contamination of the condensed Water., l l

The object of my invention is to separate and throw ont of the system, the volatilescids and other gases which are. generated by heatordinery surface Water under pressure, by direct Contact :with live-steem `from the boiler; thereby providing a surface condenser with pure steam which will not cor rode the nietn llic condensing surfaces nor contaminate the condensed water' A'with metallic compounds.

A Jfurther object is to provide improved means for the distillation of enter for use in the manufacture of ice and for other purposes.

A further object is to provide means for supplying surface condensers of ice machinery with steam, from which volatile acids o ndother gases liable to corrode such con' densers, have been eliminated, and to gore-` i-ent the contamination-of the Water to be congealed with metallic compounds.

A further object is to provide means for conducting gases generated in n live-stea1n feed Water purifier', from the latter; to utilize such gases mixed -With steam to do Work; and-dually to discharge the same into the atmosphere.

accomplish the purpose of my invention by passing the feed Water through a live-steam puri er, and conducting the gases generated therein (mixed with steam) out of the system and preventing such gases rrom becoming mixed with the intim steam supjply which goes 'to the surface condenser, l

butto conductv the gases mixed with steam A direct from the livesteani feed water heater to e. feed water pump cr other small engine or machine where the forces of the gases and steam een be utilized, said gases and steam being then discharged into thc atmosphere. lThlisthe volatile acids and gases are separated from the water (before the Water reaches the boiler); conducted out'of the system, and not allowed again to mix with the steam. Consequently, the sur# face steam condensers are supplied with steam free from volatile acids und the corrosion of the oondensers, os Well :is the con'- tamination of the condensed \vater, ivill be avoided. i l

`With the objects above stated inA View, the invention consists in certain novel features' hereinafter setorth and pointed out in the claims. 'v

In the accompanyingclrewings, Figure l is o generolview of an ice making plant illust-rating en em'bodirnentof my invention, and Fig.. 2 tiem 1 represents u steam boiler furnace and 2 the steam dome. From the latter, a pipe`3 extends to on engine 4c and the exhaust from the lat-ter passes through a pipe t0n condenser 6. This condenser is such as usually employed in ice machinery ond comprises a coil,.o1.'er which otrough is dispooedoncl provided with numerous perorot-ions-in'its scha and of' @hmm indm 255 and :Supp

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